Teenager Exhibits Strange Behavior Before Disappearing | Mekayla Bali Case Analysis
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If a young person asks you for money for a hotel room please sit them down and find out why and do your best to help them.
Yes, and call parents, if possible, and /or for help !
@@pattihawks353 Not the best idea as parents might be what they run away from. There is plenty of cases when children are forced back to their abusive parents :(
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By calling for help, I was referring to Law Enforcement/Social Servvices, as well.
Xactly!!
I can’t imagine no follow up questions though I’d imagine the young girl would think of a lie to not raise alarms
I would also go with the bad actor, someone groomed her online and made her an active participant in her own disappearance.
Excellent observation. I said the same above. He groomed her and coaxed into trying to get a hotel room to prove her sexual worthiness to him. But, he then just said, we'll go to my house and you can show me. And, he toyed with her a few days, and killed her when she didn't continue playing his game. Or that's how I would have done it. Sorry, of course, if I was a bad man.
I think so too
I was born and raised in this town...went to the same high school as her but that was in the late 90s. Yorkton is small , not much to do and every young person's dream was to get out and experience something.. anything. That bus "depot" never had cameras and I recall taking the bus back to Yorkton where if your bus rolled in after midnight, the depot would be CLOSED! So you had to be prepared to have made arrangements for someone to pick you up or have change to call a cab from a payphone outside. I don't blame her for wanting to expand her horizons and see "what else is out there". Unfortunately, I think she encountered the wrong person and had a nefarious ending. Thanks for covering this case, Dr. G.
I agree. 😢
Yea yea and my Dad tried to kill me for my birthday party to give me the ultimate high. See I was a junkie then so pops tried to give me the ultimate high which was death. Fentanyl wasn’t doing it for me anymore so he actually did try to help me have a great time
Yorkton is in the middle of nowhere
@@Sammsy1126 what the actual fu€k
Regina pronounced Ree ji (as I am here) na. Great channel Dr Grande
A good intentioned man wouldn’t keep her from her family. I think you’re right, she is probably dead. Very sad.
yeah, she's dead.
If I remember correctly, Mekayla had a very bad relationship to her mother. That would give a reason why she wouldn't want to talk to her family.
@@PoeLemic So will you, someday... how's that for a polemic😂
She was 16, so in the very unlikely event it was a "well intentioned" guy in his 20s, it would still be legally rape, thus no family contact. Am sure it was a bad actor though. So sad.
@@kevinf8439Mekayla was always close with her mother... I was good friends with her. Do YOU know something the rest of us dont know??
People are agreeing that she’s dead but it’s very possible that one of the men she met online is in human trafficking or holding her hostage for himself.
I was thinking the same thing.
I thought this immediately. I believed she was vulnerable and groomed.
I dunno which fate is worse...
I was thinking the same thing. A young girl with no positive male role model desiring male attention could easily be persuaded to join him for "a better life". I can just a imagine that predator love bombing her (which is what romance scammers do) and manipulating her emotionally. There are very evil people in this world and unfortunately, the internet has provided the predators with more access to more victims.
I think that is the more likely scenario. The survival time of those girls isn’t great, but this seems more like kidnapping for prostitution. Which is awful, but she could still be alive somewhere.
Also, she could had been told to meet at the bus stop because there were no security cameras. This man knew that the bus stop did not have cameras , and that is why he told her to meet at bus stop.
Very sadly , I do not believe she is alive. This man instructed her very well on how not to be tracked, he has probably done this before.
You know she could of hitched a lift when she was told the next bus would be in 5 hrs.
I doubt that very much.
If her abductor ordered her to do this, why did he wait several hours first? Why didn't he direct her to the bus station immediately? In fact, almost every single action Mekayla takes that day makes little to no sense if you assume that a bad actor ordered her to do so.
I guess most of her actions that day were on her own volition.
I think what she was looking for outside was a car coming to get her. I doubt she's alive or at the least has been sex trafficked. She could be in the middle east or who knows where.
@@korneliusjansen542 She was waiting at the restaurant for a couple of hours texting and making phone calls. She appeared to be looking for someone to come pick her up. I'm sure the guy was full of excuses of why he wasn't there yet. He may have even been driving by the restaurant and decided that it was too risky to pick her up there, so he told her to go to the bus depot and take a bus to Regina. That could have been a ploy to lure her away from a business with security cameras. He may or may not have known the bus schedule. It wouldn't have mattered either way because if she did catch a bus to Regina he could have followed it back to that city and abducted her there instead. I'm guessing that he abducted her somewhere near the bus depot. I don't know how Mollie knows what the abductor knew or didn't know (no security cameras at the bus depot?) but he may have known that or just lured her away from it instead. So far he's gotten away with her murder. That was almost 7 years ago. He's probably a serial killer and will eventually get caught and they may be able to connect him to this disappearance (they only suspect these types of other murders but unless they confess - very few do - they have no proof in most of these cases).
@@korneliusjansen542 not if she was having second thoughts the entire time. It seems like she was having an internal struggle
She was such a vulnerable person 😢 God rest her soul
Thank you for covering this case, her disappearance has haunted me since I first saw the news of it many years ago. Her young mind seemed so searching and so lonely and so lost, it is devastating to imagine her final hours and moments.
Fathers, show your daughters that you love them, tell them often.
If you don’t, some man will come around and tell them they do, even if they don’t!
You don’t have to be a perfect Dad, you just need to be there for your children.
She didn't have a father.
Modern women make it almost impossible to be a father.
@@andrewwood763 That they demonize good men, and worship badboy Chad/Tyrone cock.
@@andrewwood763it means modern feminism has disposed of the man, to its detriment. Can you understand that?
@@andrewwood763 dumbo he chose not to be there. No doubt he never wanted a child, just a fling.
What a tragic situation. I personally believe she met a man she met online and left with the man, I wonder if the man wanted to harm her , I don't believe she's still alive. Thank you Dr Grande. Brilliant analysis, tragic outcome and informative topic.
Hi CT - So many sightings with chances for changing her mind! If only that hotel room had come through or bus had been timely! Too much bad luck! Hope you and family are well! Dr. Grande keeps us going!
Isn't it more likely that she met some random guy (maybe a very young fellow) online and made all these plans that kept falling through because he was, in fact, too young to accomplish them? She kept waiting and watching, and even checked on a bus ticket but, ultimately, when he couldn't get to her as "planned" (maybe more wishful thinking on her part than actual intention on his), she decided to hitchhike to him. THEN she encountered a bad actor. This hypothetical "man" derives only from a friend's statement that Mekayla claimed "a man" was coming to meet her (which simply doesn't sound like the way girls talk. "A guy" would have been more natural) and Dr. Grande's rather tenuous suggestion of her "lack of a reliable male figure in her life."
she could've possibly hitch hiked or in some other way ran into someone with bad intentions while attempting to travel to meet the person. Either way its pretty likely she was going to meet a guy whether he had intentions himself or she got caught up on the way there
@@pricklypear7516 the issue with that is anyone who has planned to meet her and had only good intentions would have come forward by now in an effort to help find her, surely.
I'm sick of lowlife scum harming vulnerable people; I wish one of these losers would try to harm me!!
This one has always seemed so sad to me. I agree that she's probably dead and it's awful that there are zero suspects.
Yeah, she's dead, and by utilizing phone apps, she did not allow law enforcement to have any clues as to how to catch the killer.
@@PoeLemic Or where to even LOOK for the killer. I agree, if she were alive, she would've reached out to someone, either friends or family by now.
she's probably married by now and don't want to be found
@@KA-in6sx ^^^
Unfortunately, it seems that Mekayla encountered a rare smart criminal.
I had a friend who got "romantically" involved with a man online when she was 12 or 13. She went for a "date" with him and was abducted. It was a guy in his late twenties and his friend, I think they may have been meth heads. She went to a couple of different areas and at some point they saw a car on the shoulder of the interstate and they stopped to steal the sound system from that car which didn't fit in the trunk or something like that so she had to ride in the trunk and they saw the man walking down from the nearest exit with a gas can yelling at them so they piled in and I guess the angry guy threw something that broke a window or something like that then they stopped somewhere and before they left the cops intercepted them and they found her. She was like 3 states away. I met her the next year and she never told me about it until 15 years later. Crazy stuff. She said the cops said they had abducted a few other girls, I didn't ask what happened to them
You have a positive screen name.
Jeepers, that's scary. It was lucky for her that they were stupid enough to try robbing the car stereo and attracting the cops.
Man that's wild
I live in Sarnia, ON and a few months back we had some people trying to lure kids away for sex slavery ...kinda sounds like what happened
I bring this up because it involved mystery extra cell phones
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Yes, I thought the same. Strange that Dr Grande didn't think of that.
That was my first thought too. This predator was a pro, I don't think it was a one-time thing. I hope she gets away and recovers, poor girl.
@@sunnycatc6491 Yes, they're Pro's. And, they groomed her well. She was guillable and bought into it.
I have watched many of Dr Grande's videos- but this one made me cry.
I saw my own life sooooo many years ago where l ran away from home. Thankfully the police "found me" a few weeks later.
_(I had left NJ and was brought by an older man in his mid 20's to NYC)_
Any number of negative outcomes could have been my future. It was a very dysfunctional home life that made me leave. I was only 13 or so when l ran away..
That was many decades ago and the world is no safer place
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I cried because l know what it's like to be her age, to be so confused and to believe help or a "better life" is _out there_ somewhere~
What happened to the 'man?' Was he a pervert?
@@barneyronnie I just went and typed a reply to you and when I looked back it's not there. Tell me if you see it... if not I will have to redo the lengthy message I just sent you. Not the first time I've seen UA-cam screw up
@@HJG-1019 Indeed, it is a rather common occurence.
i have often wondered if the "man" sent makayla fake docs showing he deposited 5k in her bank acct. she was definitely meeting up with someone and im sure he was tracking her , watching her the whole morning. there has to be some kind of digital contacts trail between she and the "man", but im sure law enforcement forensics have tried their best to find such. Praying for Makayla and all whom love her.
@@craigkennedy5104 about like your helpful comment. What an @$$ hole
@@craigkennedy5104 Soooo edgy
I think that she was lied to and told that $5k was going to be deposited in her account, and when she realized it was a not real she then started making strange decisions and doing things that were “out of character”….I just can’t understand what made her feel like she couldn’t just go back home and move on with her life. So that makes me feel like she was possibly very embarrassed to go back home and face her peers after she made those claims of having all that money and running away for a life of riches and luxury, etc.
She probably felt so embarrassed because she didn’t really have any true friends to begin with, and would only be seen as even more of a “weirdo” for lying about the money. So that tells me she was most likely catfished and truly thought she was running off and starting a new life with this handsome and rich mystery man, only to be let down when the mystery man turned out to be some old and creepy loser with no money.
That’s my theory. I’m probably wrong, but it’s what I think played out. It’s just a sad case all around.
This is very insightful...whether your theory is true or not, it definitely makes you wonder.
Or maybe it was a typical case of a teen lying to show off? When I was at school there was plenty of people who would just blatantly make up lies to make themselves sound great
I was one of those TRUE friends... so try again!! She would have come to me... something bad happened. She wouldnt have run away.
So sad. Another beautiful young person that didn't understand their worth.
Teenagers, who are bullied due to a physical différance, are many times prone to taking this to extreme levels. They seek perfection and acceptance. Being different even over minor and temporary things are many times traumatic and life altering. This is magnified in our world of social media.
I have to give you praise for having multiple keyboard languages set up. My phone changes to Spanish or French all the time, myself.
I lived in Yorkton when she went missing. This shook the town it was fricken diabolical. I'm glad a youtuber with a big following is finally talking about this case. I've been trying to get people to revive the case. Thank you
the diner she was last seen in 'doesnt have cctv' thats very very unusual. i'd be talking to the owner of that place - seems like it could be lie about not having cameras/ they had cameras and they were removed. thats the only weird thing i hear of - i live in a tiny scottish town and the local paper shop/ corner store has cctv....
@Tax is Slavery Boxing the people that owned/own the restaurant are on the older side. It was attached to the grey hound bus stop. They had no need for cameras
That’s a common thing here in the US. The UK and China have the most cameras per sq ft in the world, seems like most of Europe probably does too. I work at a huge chain restaurant & bar in a big/wealthy suburb a few mins from a major city. There are zero cameras, inside or outside my work.
CCTV is much more common in the UK than in Canada. This is a mom and pop type of restaurant in a small town. It’s not even a little bit unusual that they wouldn’t have CCTV.
@@barbparker6129 Canada is a very high trust society (results of homogeny) they have a rep for being kind to eachother and the common lore is that they don't lock their doors or cars
I think you could bring a lot to more missing persons cases dr grande! I know it’s not your typical genre, but it never hurts to have more eyes on them!
Agreed!
Omg GOOD IDEA!! Once a week at least
This BREAKS MY HEART
This poor girl
@@Fefe559 I hope maybe he’s considering doing more!
I feel so sad for this girl. I hope that she will be found and that man, who lured her away, will be caught.
As heart-wreching as this story is, it was very important that you covered this story to make people aware of such situations.
That story is utterly gut-wrenching!! Her mother must be sick with worry over Mekayla. These stories always have a way of reminding me of how grateful I am that my children are grown young adults, now in their mid-30's. I don't know if I could even manage to cope if this happened with one of my sons. I hope the theory of her running away with a Prince Charming and living happily ever after is the case, but sadly, I don't think it is. I think if it were the case, she would've reached out by now.
I reckon it's really rare for somebody to go missing in such a manner for such a long time without any trace
Oh yes! This is one of those compelling disappearance cases and you covered it well. Thank you!
The sad part is she said on Snapchat (and maybe on some other chat rooms or something) she doesn’t have any friends in real life, and that can really help predators manipulate her and make her a good target. She clearly wanted a boyfriend or friends in general and may have cost her own safety. She is young , trusting and I’m sure wanted to get away for a little. But maybe now forever.
I really do hope she is alive, but it’s probably a low chance of that.
When I drive back to my hometown, I always stop at a rest stop not too far from Yorkton and Mekayla's missing posters are always there. They're haunting to look at.
Not that it matters, but for future reference, the I in Regina is long. (Yes, we're aware of what that makes it sound like, thanks.)
For more tragic Saskatchewan content, you should look into the Robert Latimer case.
Did you abduct her?
When something like this happens, we’re just waiting for the body to turn up. The spectrum of associates one meets online goes from confused grandma to homicidal maniac. This is not a bell curve. Check the comments section of any news outlet. When she sought real world companionship with an online personality, she opened up a series of events her teenage mind wasn't developed enough to predict.
This missing person case is particularly frustrating for me. I'm convinced it was a 'bad actor' situation, at least in regards to whom she was communicating with via phone.
I bet the same thing that happened to me happened to her. She met a sicko online (mine was by 1-900 chat line, pre internet) who groomed her and told her a million nice, pretty things and lured her away. Unfortunately, her story didn't end as happily as mine. 💔
I hope you are ok. 🙏
@@Seabreeze34 I am now. 💞Thank you.
Young people want things just like anyone else. They can underestimate their own value. Just because society limits what you can or should do when your underaged doesn’t mean the child isn’t valuable. Unfortunately there are plenty of creeps that will capitalize on a child’s low self esteem.
All my supports 2 u 🙏🙏
Crazy! Just discovered your channel and was pleasantly surprised to see you cover this!! I work with mekaylas mom and was talking with her when she got word mekayla was not at school when her grandmother went to pick her up. Her mother immediately left work as this was not normal for her. There was word she had two phones. Your assessment is the same as most people around here, she at times had a low self esteem and most believe she was groomed by some creep. I personally think this guy was making her run all over town to make sure no one was watching her. I believe he or they were directing her on what to say and do all day to throw people off. There was a large sum of cash in her home in case of emergency and that was untouched. She left everything behind. Her dad is a deadbeat who came out of the woodworks to cause her mother more pain and issues. Mekayla played piano and was a good big sister. The family has never been the same (obviously) and we don't feel the police are even looking anymore. I can't imagine having no answers and I see mekaylas mom daily. I don't know how she keeps trucking along. Thank you so much for bringing attention to this. Mekayla would be 23 today and still no answers. April 12th will be 7 years. 😢. Her mother is a lovely lady and so is her grandmother and siblings. This was a horrible err in judgement for mekayla that did not end well. She didn't even like going for sleepovers. She would not have left on her own for this long. Also, Regina rhymes with vagina fyi 😂
In my opinion, she's dead. I thought that from the get-go. What gave me the indiction, is that she was trying to obtain some extra money and asking for assistance in getting a hotel room. She wanted that possibility (or the man encouraged and/or groomed that out of her) for her to please him and show him that she was worthy. Then, he'd take her away to a better life. Instead he absconded with her, and he killed her for whatever reason he could find for doing that.
Once he took her virginity her value went down.
Please don't think it, don't say it!!
The jokes about hide-and-seek were not necessary. It's funny when you make jokes about perpetrators, not victims.
A mother and a grandmother have been grieving for six years without ever knowing what happened to their little girl.
It was kind of funny. Grow up.
I agree completely. Very bad taste, IMO.
I am friends with the family. It was a special game that they played together, a wonderful memory for them. I would HATE for them to see this. It would hurt them so much. It was very cruel of that so-called "doctor".
Love your channel Dr. Grande… thank you for your professional analysis of many cases.. just want to say Regina is pronounced RE GINA kind of like the ladies anatomy…. I’m from Canada 🇨🇦❤️
Yeah that's how it's pronounced in real life, but this is UA-cam and it may be prudent to play it safe with the automatic speech recognition and avoid such rhymes. 😛
Haha I commented about the same! I’m in Swift Current..
@@X_Baron that's a good point, I thought he was just saying it strange but he's smart enough to know that it might be buried if he said it like we do.
This story is so heart breaking!
I think why "the guy" couldn't pick her up is because he isn't who she thinks he is. She wouldn't get in the car with some dumpy crazy man because she thinks he's a good looking
young man. He lured her step by step right into his lair only to unalive her. I can't imagine the horror of walking through a door and realizing you were so deceived. It makes me feel sick to my stomach!
If some guy told me to take my phone apart so NOBODY can trace me I'd say "kiss my a**" and "goodbye." I wish she had noticed the red flag but being sweet, young and naive she trusted what he told her.
I hope I'm wrong wrong wrong and she is living happily somewhere.
Your probably right, as this guy seemed paranoid about protecting his identity,
and also likely used a fake profile and pics to attract her, and didn't reveal
himself until it was too late for her, then likely raped her, and killed her. Not that
these guys plan to kill, but they do so, so their not reported to the Cops. If this
guy did this all the time, there would be a lot more killings in the area. Probably
some man between 45 and 55 yrs old, I would think.
strongly agree
Very likely. 😔💔
There really needs to be a red flag class taught in every school worldwide. Taught in every grade and age appropriate of course.
@@kina18
That's a really good idea! It would definitely be beneficial and could help save some lives. I wonder how hard it would be to implement that curriculum?
Your missing persons videos are always the most interesting- you provide insight I’ve rarely seen anywhere else! Love seeing your perspective on things:)
It is infuriating more evidence can't be garnered from her Instagram and Snapchat accounts.
Yet more evidence on just how deadly these app's are to unsuspecting children. Social media is ruining an entire generation in more ways than we can even fathom.
she used kik too which was basically a virtual grooming warehouse ESPECIALLY in the years of 2014-2018. some sick monster knows what happened to her and i pray they find them
What? Why can’t they do that?
@@annanicole5494 oh god i remember that app. definitely made it easy to communicate with a lot of anonymous weirdos.
@@dumbgirl8 oh definitely it was so sketchy and dangerous, i used it a lot and thank my lucky stars i never was lured by anyone. you didn’t even need to add any personal information to make an account, no real name, no phone number, nothing. all you needed was just any email which could be literally gibberish/random letters and numbers. i also remember you could audio call (i think video call too maybe??) people on there without linking a phone number which i’m sure this creep was doing
Can you please cover the disappearance of Denny Poole? He was a Native American 15 year old boy in Dawson Creek BC Canada who tried to walk to the next town several hours away to meet up with a girl he met online. He took a friend with him. Part way there a passerby called the police about boys acting "suspiciously" but when they got there they could only find the boy who'd been with Denny. There have been massive searches but Denny has never been found. And his story has received almost no coverage since he's an indigenous kid from a small town in Canada. The whole thing is super eery... no trace of him has ever been found even though this happened in 2016 & the areas been thoroughly searched multiple times. I'd love to hear your take on it.
Kendall Rae does videos of missing indigenous people may contact her too.
His 'friend' murdered him.
It doesn't have anything to do with him being certain tribe unless you want to blame tribal leaders corruption & few resources where his happened.
I just wanted to point out that it's really wonderful of you to use your great power as a VIP UA-camr to reach tons of people out to hopefully find the girl Mekayla Bali, even when there's little hope. I hope she's alive and well❣️Grazie mille, Dr Grande❣️💙👍
@@XanderShiller believe it or not, not everyone speaks English as a first language. If the meaning isn’t lost, move on. It’s a comment section not a duolingo lesson
@@XanderShiller Get a grip on your behavioral health!
Thankyou doing this case, it has really baffled me and haunted me. There is a surveillance footage on the internet of her sitting at a table at the restaurant she was at and a strange man walks by her and looks like he is looking , like looking for someone. When I saw that guy on the footage it sent chills up my spine. He turns to a group of guys having breakfast and asks then something and at that moment in the video, she looks up at him like she recognized his voice or something. Wondering if that man is the clue to this case. Def think they/he killed her. My heart goes out to her mother and family.
She met someone online and now she's dead.
you have quickly become my favorite new channel man. great information dealt out in a calming voice with some dry wit thrown in. keep up the good work !
This case and a few others from Saskatchewan always make my heart hurt. For being such a small Province I feel like we always have young women missing. Thank you for bringing this case up for discussion!
Province.
@@catslove3884 And ...?????
@@barneyronnie I was correcting the spelling, but it looks like she edited it.
@@catslove3884 I though something like that happened🙄
@@catslove3884 Oh, I see. Thanks.
No decent person would allow for the prolonged suffering, worrying and heartache of their significant other’s loved ones.
If she had run off with a man, he was not a good intentioned one.
I hope I’m wrong and she is found to be alive and thriving, but we all know how unlikely that is.
About as likely as my 675 pound body, gonna compete and win a triathlon any time soon.
my hope that at least she is found living on the street as an addict although unlikely and sad too
@@PoeLemic How is your ejection fraction? Nice polemic😂
Unfortunately, the odds of her having met someone with good intentions is heavily outweighed by her meeting someone with other intentions. Young girl, small town, unhappy with her current situation, sounds like a made for tv movie, but not one you would see on the Hallmark Channel.
I have a daughter, and she knows that she can always rely on family for whatever she needs, be it real or imagined. Sadly, it seems Mekayla believed she couldn't.
I have a theory about this case: she met a man online and sent them photos that were “compromising”. They blackmailed her that they would publish the photos online unless she agreed to meet them at a specific time and place- essentially running away from home. And they would likely have convinced her that her life would be in no immediate danger but she likely understood that this was incredibly risky. They would also most likely promise to take care of her. Either that, or they threatened to harm her family and/or friends if she didn’t agree to run away. And now, she is either not alive or has been trafficked.
Thats why you dont become an underage wh*re
He probably did have compromising photos of her and probably did use them to manipulate her. I think he likely waited until he led her far enough out of town before using that to his advantage. Getting her into unfamiliar territory would make her more likely to comply. No money, strange place, alone and knowing she would be in a ton of trouble. Heartbreaking to think about.
I hope her mom finds out what happened to her some day
It's probably better to spare her the details and just let her keep wondering where she is. Her Mom doesn't need to know the "Outline".
@@PoeLemic No, if it was me in her Mum's situation, I would rather know the truth. Imagine never, ever knowing whether your child is living a happy life, or held against their will doing some awful things. It would drive you insane!!. My mind would work overtime, yet, still trying to remain hopeful. God bless Mekayla and her family. Please let there be answers soon.
@@PoeLemic If I ever lost a family member this close I only wanted to know whether my loved one is dead or not or also missing...I would not want to know details of her demise, if it was a murder case.
@@PoeLemic why are all your comments disgustingly dim witted and perverted, you loner. Talking about young girls being "fun, for a while" and leaving the mother wondering is ridiculous, but you know that don't you. 🙄
@@PoeLemic I’ve rarely heard of anyone who has a murdered and/or missing loved one, and not want to know what happened, why and where they physically are… spare them the answers to that? I don’t think so…
My boyfriend's missing and hasn't touched his bank account. It's been four months, it's terrible not knowing. He was going to Thailand with a stop over in Saudi Arabia and was ill so they hospitalised him. After 9 days he left the hospital and disappeared. The British Consul visited him in hospital and he said he didn't have his phone to contact me and they never even wrote me a letter so I had to find out from the police. The hospital had his passport but I can't get an answer from the Foreign office about if they took his phone, cash and bank card.
prayers for her safe return
I had a friend who disappeared like this. But she came back thankfully! She met a sugar daddy online and he paid for her plane ticket to Texas from New York. She got there. They had sex and then he held her hostage and branded her for trafficking. He also tried to get rid of her tattoo. She said that was the most painful. Anyways, somehow she got a hold of a phone, called her mom, told her mom to call the police if she doesn’t come back, stole the man’s wallet, bought a plane ticket back to NY with his money. Anyways, when the man came back she told him she contacted her mom and if she’s not back she’ll call the police. Thankfully he let her go but yeah…bad actor
Your friend is lying
@@johnf817Ok. You haven't seen the bad side of humanity then. Saying this as a person who's been held captive and tortured for days
@SetiSupreme you mean your ex boyfriend slapped you around and didn't want you leaving the house?
@@johnf817 Lol no.. I'm a big man, I was accused of stealing drugs so I was tied to a chair for three days and suffered.. Things. Bad things. And they fucking found the drugs on their own on the third day. In fucking Bandidos clubhouse freezer
Let's see the brand and the faded tattoo
Sadly she is likely locked in some monsters basement, deceased, or in some shady location. Teens, smart enough to disappear but not to know how dangerous it is for young people, especially young women/girls.
The desperate and sudden need for cash makes me wonder if she didn't get in over her head with some shady online dealings and owed someone (probably a "boyfriend".she wanted to impress) money or else she'd be in trouble. It seems like there was a plan that kept changing, and the need for more and more $$$, as indicated by multiple bank withdrawals and the desperation to pawn her ring. She left some money at home so obviously she didn't know how much she'd need when she left that morning. Very sad and strange.
Yes, I think the motel room was for her to have an escapade to show him she had sexual worth. And, he was requesting her to prove her "sexual worthiness" to him. Or, that'd be my guess. And, he acted angry that she didn't get the room, so he just said he'd pick her up. Then, she's gone and will never be seen again.
Also....leaving money at home likely meant she planned on COMING home. Yes?
@@amelia_k1082 yes, exactly my thoughts! The plan kept unfolding and she went with it. I would really like to know who she was chatting with online. The money and making sure to hide her location suggests there was more going on than romance.
It will be great to hear your opinion about postpartum psychosis, how justice system treated differently Carol Coronado case from Andrea Yates case, and your perspective about the recent tragedy on Lindsay Clancy's family
Thanks for your great content! 😀
I really hope that Mekayla is found and that her family and loved ones can receive the answers that they have been searching for.
This is so, so sad, heartbreaking. Dr. Grande, you always give the subjects of the cases you analyze great dignity. That always blesses my heart. God bless you.
Very interesting story. Just FYI …. Regina is pronounced with a long i. From a Canadian fan 🇨🇦
I’m so glad you have decided to offer your analysis on this case. It always baffles me..
P.S.
regina, Latin noun meaning queen is pronounced ‘re-gee-na’ while Regina, geographical name is pronounced ‘Re-gI-na’ as in Vagina. Thankyou for the analysis, Dr. Grande.. ❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤
Excellent analysis Dr. Grande! Thank you for covering this case.
Your voice is so calming, it takes the edge off some of the more unsettling content.
Scrolling through the comments and suddenly like 30 Canadians in a row are correcting Dr Grande about his pronunciation. I thought we were supposed to be polite!! 🤦♀
IMO Pro and Con comments are welcome. I believe Dr Grande keeps it real.
How is that impolite? No one was dogging him, just explaining the weird Canadian pronunciation.
It states her phone wasnt switched off until the next day in the morning, so couldnt they track its ping signals? It seems strange that if she was abducted that whomever snatched her didnt destroy her phone asap
Excellent description of possible scenarios Dr Grande. You always make me think. Thank you.
Your expertise is very much appreciated...
Can always count on Dr. Grande to make my day with a good vid
I have always thought she was dead. It really looks like it went down as Dr Grande theorized. I do hope her body is recovered so that the family does have at least some sort of closure.
Found your analysis helpful because it validated my own novice analysis. Always learning & appreciate your videos!
Hey DR Grande just saw you in the Law and Crime network........you are becoming a HUGE STAR.....keep up the great work...🔥🔥🔥
Interesting case. I hope she’s found safely and is missing voluntarily.
You have such a soothing voice. Do have/would you consider a podcast?
She probably hitched a lift at the station when she was told the next bus to Regina wouldn’t arrive for 5 hours. She’d approached someone for help before so its a possibility…Whoever she left with probably murdered her.
Or kidnapped her to traffic her.
Or, is holding her hostage, and is using her for a little fun on a daily basis. Because young girls are fun, for a while.
@@PoeLemic That comment could be taken badly by some.....
She is being trafficked.
@@SirenaSpades I doubt that. She wasn't that attractive to traffic off
for sex imo. Likely she met an older man online ( maybe married) who
wanted to have sex with a young girl, and maybe raped her. He obviously
didn't want to get caught, so he then killed her to make sure he wouldn't.
I think this happens in a lot of these cases. I don't think a lot of these
men plan to kill, but after what they've done, they realize there's only 1
way to make sure. If there was a serial killer loose, he would have kept
on killing. I also think she's likely dead, but you don't know for sure ?
How terribly sad she was vulnerable & been prayed upon it would seem. How truly tragic
Great analysis, Dr. Grande. Thank you so much.❤
I am shocked, how freely she was allowed, to exit and renter school premises without any consequences. This certainly, was a red flag.
High school kids are pretty free to come and go for the most part
It's a school not a prison plus she was in high school. When I was in high school we had several annexes that we traveled back and forth to several times a day.
agreed! i feel like high school doors were watched like a hawk; i remember "skipping" an end of day pep rally bc i knew all staff was in the gym, but i was still freaked out!!!! and only really gained like 35 minutes extra hahaha. i bet some high schools are different, but there is a lot of violence and a man shot his wife in the pick up line at the elementary school on my campus sooooo idk maybe it's situational
There's no way I would have been able to come and go like that when I was in high school. I got detention for leaving to go to McDonald's for lunch.
@@phishlipsableI think the easy going atmosphere of this school has to be because it's in Canada and they have way less gun violence to worry about.
This Story screams:. Hi! I'm the perfect Target for a Sociopath! Pretty young girl but low self esteem due to acne, no father figure, claims she's looking for chat friends claiming she has none in real life.
1st Question:. From where did she transfer the $25 dollars? Next Q:. Did someone tell her they'd send her bank $5000?
Christian ethics are great but there's literally NO EDUCATION on Dark Triad Personalities! Young people have insecurities & emotional & are mostly unaware that evil people can seem very kind, caring, interested and love bomb yet have sinister intentions.
Can someone PLEASE create an educational program/film series about Dark Personalities aimed at students?
Interesting presentation as always, Doc.
Another mysterious case, I agree as usual with Dr. Grande. Wished Mekayla would have told someone what was going on, kids that age think they are invincible, they can not overlook the consequences of their actions sometime.
She got in over her head. Has happenned to young girls forever. Social media makes girls her age sitting ducks. Parents need to get brutally honest with their daughters about how low a male will go for even a single sex act. Men murder for less than nothing. This young woman was looking for trouble and found it.
This is so sad - where were her parents ? No mention?
Cases like these make me incredibly sad
If she is living a good life I think she would contact her siblings and mother.
What was the cause of her unhappiness? Hard to say without knowing the family dynamics.
Canadian here: it is pronounced RE-GY-NA. Thank you for the story.
Re-guy-na?
Re-gina?
Not trying to be rude or anything, but you just wholly confused me with the GY, it might just be my public edu showing but is it supposed to be the gee or gi sound lol.
@@ShapeShiftedIntoMyCat It rhymes with certain female anatomy if that helps 😂
“Ra-Ji-Na”
😂 I feel like he did it just so call his Canadian viewers comment about it.
Ray jean nuh ??? Ra Jean nuh ???
@@JennyNobody Genius, boosts engagement
Thank you, Dr Grande.
How the hell a BUS station in 2016 had no surveilance???
I also do not believe she is still alive. Can't the police do more to track her online activities? Is this still an active investigation or has it gone cold? Thank you Dr. Grande for bringing attention to this tragic case.
Actual Police hat tried already everything to potential come in posession of protocols but unfortunately the apps back in the days only saved protocols for this and this time and some dont even save anything and when the police finally hat offical permission to force the protocols they were already gone. Another thing is, that on the CCTV-Footage she appears to phone to someone but these calls were never noticed in the protocols regarding her phone. When she is not pretending to talk to someone, it is very likely she posessed a secret second phone (propably an advise from the person she talked to) that the police can't track without knowing the number. The case is defacto cold since then, because all hints, that were given since are dead ends.
If Mekayla is still alive she would be over 18 years old now. If her relatonship with her mum was bad at the time there could be a good reason for her, as a minor, to just disappear from the radar for some time, but now she would be an adult making her own decisions. Still there’s nothing to be heard from her. I agree with Dr. Grande’s “bad actor” conclusion. Why all this running around, sending a message to a friend that she needs help, then asking a lady to book a hotelroom for her, then going to school telling some friends that she is leaving, the large amount of money she would be having in the bank. It’s very probable this girl was instructed by sb to set up a smoke screen, which would finally lead to her own demise.
Always interesting.
I see you moved some of your cacti
around. #1
Thank you
Peace 💕🇺🇲
I like this vid. Good insight and great analysis.
Could you talk about homelessness and what personality factors and other causes that could contribute to such a situation? It seems to be a pretty big problem in the US from what I understand.
Second that, how is becoming a problem that can’t be solved in a resourceful country like US
@@user-fu1nw7kh2h capitalism ;)
its not personality they income is too low and the rent is way too high
It has nothing to do with personality. Rent and home prices are ridiculously high. I moved over 3 thousand miles from home because there was no hope of me ever owning a home in my state and I am a professional person with a degree that typically makes >70k.
@@monkeytennis7477 I concur for the most part
Please cover musicians Brian Wilson and Elliot Smith? Thanks for all your work Dr. Grande.
My night time cup ofd tea ☕ Dr G u the goat
I saw her a couple years ago in saint Augustine fl, and spoke to her and said she needs to go get a ticket to North or South Carolina.
Another great video, Doc.
Thank you for covering this tragic story.
I can't shake the feeling that she ended up in an Epst3in like situation
Thank you!! ❤
My granddaughter got involved with some guy online. I had to go to school to get her because she had been telling her friends she wanted to kill herself. Nobody dealt realistically with what was going on. I am grateful she lived thru her adolecense and into adulthood. The main problem was lack of parental supervision. It is a grave mistake to supervise kids from the point of view that they need their privacy. They don't have to know how closely you monitor them, but you have to do it, even if you can't say anything about a lot of stuff at least you will know (hopefully) when they are in danger.
If you are overbearing with the monitoring it will more than likely cause the kid to be resentful and come up with other ways to hide things from you. Probably better to educate the kid on the dangers of talking to strangers online and tell them about real world examples so they fully understand
Social media has been a curse to the young, especially young women 😢
Smart parents keep kids off social media.
Here in Canada, Regina is pronounced "Re-gine-ah" (as in "mine" or like v*gina). I never understood why. The way Dr Grande pronounced it makes more sense, especially for anyone having studied Latin.
I had to think for a second but it also rhymes with angina
I was hoping someone would say this so I didn't have to
Certainly not in the states.
@@defundhollywood3259 Lol
Wherever she told everyone she was going, she probably went the opposite direction
Wow, this is a tough one. So tragic!
Good video, sad story. The video came up for me just after I had read a Global News aritcle from 4 days ago about how its been 8 years since she went missing.
Thanks Doc I like your style
It sounds like an human trafficker got an hold on her, that's sad and heartbreaking 💔